GE EPM 7300, Installation Manual

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Introduction
Welcome
The PMCS Interface Toolkit is a POWER LEADER Power Management Control
System (PMCS) version 6.11
a
tool that provides a custom toolkit to efficiently create
flexible, accurate, and friendly user interfaces to your power management data. With
the PMCS Wizards (accurate graphical representations of power management
devices and other commonly encountered objects), you can create applications to
provide a customized interface that accurately represents physical, electrical, and
geographical plant layouts. The wizards can significantly cut new system
development time, providing results in less than an hour.
The PMCS Interface Toolkit allows you to create one-line diagrams, elevation views,
and floor plans that you can combine with tabular data screens and three-dimensional
device wizards to create a virtual representation of your facility and equipment. With
this graphical user interface, you actually see and control devices on the screen,
without having to make a trip out to the meter or trip unit.
The Toolkit, which consists of the Wonderware InTouch development environment
coupled with GE’s wizards, is easy to use, taking advantage of state-of-the-art drag-
and-drop technology. Wizards are provided for all the devices most commonly used
with the PMCS DDE Server. Creating a custom interface is as easy as selecting
wizards for the devices installed in a facility and placing them on the screen.
Here’s what you’ll find in this guide:
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Chapter 2 explains the kinds of PMCS Wizards, their use and
configuration – Small Faceplate wizards, Large Faceplate wizards,
Tabular Data Screen wizards, One- Line wizards, Elevation wizards,
and Floor Plan wizards.
• Chapter 3 illustrates the use of the GE wizards described in Chapter 2
to create animated displays of the facility floor plan, switchgear
elevations, and system one- line diagrams.
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Chapter 4 gives an example of application development, using the
wizards described in Chapters 2 and 3 to create an actual PMCS
application.
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Chapter 5 describes the functions available with each of the GE Large
Faceplate wizards. These wizards are accurate graphical representations